“A great British tradition”

Hugh Pearman gets to try out the now-hopefully-fixed millennium bridge, and muses on the British approach to iterative design…

“We departed, happy in the knowledge that we had participated in a great British tradition. That’s the tradition that dictates that you’ve got to have a good idea, get it wrong first time out, then cook up an ingenious, Heath Robinson solution.”

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